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title: Charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated… — The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault · tree and pragmatics
description: Charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated it to Claude, who drew the plans and was commissioned to carry them out. Who acts: Charles, Claude. A sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, with its depen
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# The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143, sentence 43

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Charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated it to Claude, who drew the plans and was commissioned to carry them out.

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**Who acts:** Charles, Claude · **What happens:** conceive, communicate, draw, commission, carry out · **To what, where:** idea, Claude, plans, Academy

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This is a sentence of «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, "he Thought the Princess Was His Queen" 143. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Charles, Claude), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg29021:6:43
# text = Charles conceived the idea of the great east front and communicated it to Claude, who drew the plans and was commissioned to carry them out.
1	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	conceived	conceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	east	east	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	communicated	communicate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Claude	Claude	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	plans	plan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	commissioned	commission	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceive** | past | Charles | the idea of the great east front |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Theme |
| 2 | **communicate** | past | Charles *not said here* | idea | Claude |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to claude=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Claude | the plans |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme |
| 4 | **commission** | past · passive | Claude *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic |
| 5 | **carry out** | to-infinitive | Claude *not said here* | Academy |  |  |  |  | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault» by Charles Perrault, Project Gutenberg book 29021 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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